Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery : A Step-by-Step MBSR Approach to Help You Cope with Treatmen...
ISBN: 9781572248878 | 1572248874
Edition: 1stPublisher: New Harbinger Pubns Inc
Pub. Date: 2/1/2011
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No population needs to hear the message of mindfulness and acceptance more than the millions struggling with cancer, a group of people often gripped by stress, anxiety, and fear of the uncertain future, and yet this is the first book that presents a mindfulness programme specifically for them. Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery is an eight-week programme based in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) that aims to ease stress, manage the side effects of cancer treatment, and ultimately increase immune function through meditation and gentle yo... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Setting the Stage | |
| Mindfulness and Cancer | p. 3 |
| Outline of This Book | |
| The Cancer Experience | |
| What Is Mindfulness? | |
| Roots of Mindfulness | |
| Development of MBCR | |
| Is Mindfulness for You? | |
| Stress and Cancer | p. 17 |
| The Stress Respon... MORE | |
| The Effects of Prolonged Stress | |
| Recognizing Your Stress Symptoms | |
| Where Does Stress Come From? | |
| Stress and the Mind-Body Connection | |
| Mindfulness and Stress | |
| Stress and Cancer | |
| Coping with Stress | |
| The MBCR Program | |
| Beginning the Program | p. 35 |
| Intention, Attention, and Attitude | |
| Seeing Things Anew | |
| Paying Attention to Breathing | |
| Body Scan | |
| How to Practice These Skills | |
| Responding to Stress | p. 53 |
| Reacting vs. Responding to Stress | |
| Formal and Informal Mindfulness Practices | |
| Sitting Meditation | |
| Mindful Movement | p. 69 |
| The Context of Yoga | |
| Foundations for Yoga Practice | |
| Getting Started | |
| When to Practice Yoga | |
| Balancing Breath | p. 99 |
| The Autonomic Nervous System | |
| ôMiniö Practices | |
| When to Do Minis | |
| Stories We Tell Ourselves | p. 109 |
| Your Life in Stories | |
| The Nature of Thought | |
| Trouble in Mind: Our Distressing Stories | |
| Thoughts Running Wild | |
| The ôDon't Knowö Mind | |
| Walking Meditation | |
| How to Practice These Skills | |
| Meditation with Imagery | p. 121 |
| Your Life in Images | |
| Mountain Meditation | |
| Lake and Tree Meditations | |
| Uses of Nature Meditation | |
| A Day of Silence | p. 127 |
| Why Practice a Day of Mindfulness in Silence? | |
| What the Day Involves | |
| How to Practice a Day of Silence | |
| Deepening and Expanding | p. 137 |
| Choiceless Awareness as a Path of Insight | |
| Choiceless Awareness and Cancer | |
| Moving into the World | p. 143 |
| You Are Not Alone | |
| The Weekly Drop-in Group | |
| Symptom Management and Everyday Mindfulness | |
| Mindful Coping with Cancer-Related Symptoms and Side Effects | p. 151 |
| Hair Loss and Changes in Self-Image and Identity | |
| Sleep and Fatigue | |
| Pain | |
| Nausea | |
| Knowing Your Fear and Other Difficult Emotions | p. 163 |
| The Paradox of Avoidance | |
| Opening to Emotional Suffering | |
| Working with Difficult Emotions | |
| Calming the Anxious Mind | |
| Antidotes to Difficult Emotions | |
| What Now? | p. 169 |
| Everyday Mindfulness | |
| Life as Your Practice | |
| Beyond Cancer | |
| Healing Our World: Mindfulness in Community | |
| Final Words | |
| Appendix: Reading List | p. 177 |
| Meditation Instruction | |
| Inspirational Books on Meditation | |
| Mind-Body Health | |
| Buddhist | |
| Faith-Guided Approaches | |
| Visualization and Imagery | |
| Yoga and Stretching | |
| Websites | |
| References | p. 185 |
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Linda E. Carlson, PhD., R. Psych., holds the Enbridge Research Chair in Psychosocial Oncology and is associate professor in psychosocial oncology at the University of Calgary. She is director of psychosocial oncology research and a clinical psychologist at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre in Calgary, Canada. Michael Speca, Psy.D., R.Psych., is adjunct associate professor of psychosocial oncology at the University of Calgary, a clinical psychologist, and cofounder of the Tom Baker Cancer Centre's Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery program. Zindel Segal, PhD., is the Morgan Firestone Chair in Psychotherapy and professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto.
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